Craig Street

Craig Street, born in Oakland, California, is a noted record producer.

Street moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 11, but returned to the Bay Area for his high school years. He began playing guitar at age 14, and was in a number of Berkeley bands. In 1981 he interviewed Alan Douglas for an NPR documentary about Jimi Hendrix, which Street co-produced with then KPFA-FM 3rd World Director Bari Scott, and San Jose radio broadcaster Don West. He moved to New York in the 1980s, where he began producing records, starting with Blue Light 'til Dawn by jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. Wilson had just signed with the Blue Note label. The album was Wilson's commercial breakthrough and Street went on to produce often successful records of mainly female singers.

Street has produced albums in a variety of genres, including pop, jazz, soul, and country. In a 1998 interview, he told the Los Angeles Times, "I know it sounds corny, but I never learned how to separate music, to make distinctions between genres."[1] His music production credits include Norah Jones, k.d. lang, Rebekka Bakken, Charlie Sexton, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joe Henry, John Legend, The Manhattan Transfer, Bettye LaVette, Chris Whitley, Geri Allen, Holly Cole, and others.

Come Away with Me, which he co-produced for Norah Jones, won a Grammy for album of the year in 2002.

Discography
Sortable table
Date Artist Album title Label Notes
1993Cassandra WilsonBlue Light 'til DawnBlue Note
1995Holly ColeTemptationAlert
1995Cassandra WilsonNew Moon DaughterBlue Note
1995Javon JacksonFor One Who KnowsBlue Note
1996Jimmy ScottHeavenWarner
1996Javon JacksonA Look WithinBlue Note
1997k.d. langDragWarner
1997Jeb Loy NicholsLovers KnotCapitol
1997Jeremy TobackPerfect Flux ThingRCA
1997Chocolate GeniusBlack MusicV2
1997Chris WhitleyDirt FloorMessenger
1998Geri Allen, Mark and Scott Batson as TriadThree Pianos for JimiDouglasCo-prod. by Alan Douglas
1998Dougie BowneOne Way ElevatorDIW
1999Javon JacksonPleasant ValleyBlue Note
1999Shelby StarnerFrom in the ShadowsWarner
1999Me'Shell NdegéOcelloBitterMaverick
2000Susana BacaEco de SombrasLuaka Bop
2000The Manhattan TransferThe Spirit of St. LouisAtlantic
2000Chris Whitley Feat. Billy Martin and Chris WoodPerfect DayValley Entertainment
2000Supergenerous (Cyro Baptista and Kevin Breit)SupergenerousBlue Note
2001David LinxL'instant d'aprésPolygram
2001Jubilant SykesWait for MeSony Classical
2001Joe HenryScarMammoth
2002Dirty Dozen Brass BandMedicated MagicRopeadope
2002The Derek Trucks BandJoyful NoiseColumbia
2002Norah JonesCome Away with MeBlue Note
2002Susana BacaEspíritu vivoLuaka Bop
2002Molly JohnsonAnother DayMarquis
2003Boyd TinsleyTrue ReflectionsRCA
2004Gipsy KingsRootsNonesuch
2004Dirty Dozen Brass BandFuneral for a FriendRopeadope
2005Chocolate Genius, Inc.Black Yankee RockCommotion
2005Lizz WrightDreaming Wide AwakeVerve Forecast
2006Susana BacaTravesíasLuaka Bop
2006John LegendOnce AgainG.O.O.D. Music
2008Lizz WrightThe OrchardVerve Forecast
2009Brandi ShearerLove Don't Make You JulietVinyl Tiger
2009Rebekka BakkenMorning HoursEmArcy
2010Madeleine PeyrouxStanding on the RooftopDecca
2011Alyssa GrahamThe Lock, Stock, and SoulSunnyside
2012Bettye LaVetteThankful n' ThoughtfulAnti-
2012Amy CookSummer SkinThirty Tigers

References
  1. "Off the Beaten Tracks," by Lloyd Sachs, Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1998


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